Innovative Programs
The KEYS Auto Loan Program is the Employment & Human Services Department’s (EHSD) low-interest auto loan program intended to provide auto loans to help employed CalWORKs participants in Contra Costa County, to purchase a vehicle. The loan has a maximum dollar amount of $5,000 and a 2-year term. This auto loan program targets those participants for whom an automobile is the only practical means of transportation to employment or training, and who would otherwise not be able to obtain an auto loan.
June, 2019
Report
This Urban Institute report reviews the use of outcomes-based contracts (OBCs), which tie government payments to improvements in service delivery. The report examines the benefit of using OBCs to incentivize performance from external contactors, as well as the challenges and risks in administration and effect on service delivery. Findings are drawn from field interviews and external researchers.
June, 2019
Research-To-Practice Brief
This research-to-practice brief identifies use of kinship diversion practices at child welfare agencies. Kinship diversion, used as an alternative to foster care, places children with relatives when there are allegations of child abuse and neglect. The brief describes interviews with agency administrators and child welfare advocates and draws upon estimates of kinship diversion using the Kinship Diversion Estimation Tool, an online survey of child welfare workers.
June, 2019
Webinar / Webcast
The Urban Institute will host a webinar on June 27, 2019 from 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET to present the latest trends on place-based impact investing collaborations between foundations and community organizations. Presentations on practitioner briefs will focus on these elements of collaborative place-based impact investing: creating solid ecosystems, mapping capacities, and deploying capital. Speakers include representatives from the Urban Institute, Mission Investors Exchange, and the MacArthur Foundation.
June, 2019
Webinar / Webcast
Noncustodial parents (NCPs) want to be positively involved in their children’s lives but often face obstacles, including legal issues and inability to attain economic security and to pay child support consistently. In a recent Information Memorandum, the Administration for Children and Families reminded jurisdictions of their ability to use TANF funds to provide employment services to noncustodial parents to help needy families provide for their children and rise out of poverty.
June, 2019
Stakeholder Resource
This blogpost, authored by the Assistant Secretary of the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), describes the 10 listening sessions that ACF held nationally among key stakeholders to address family homelessness. These stakeholders, who provided input on the latest trends and local innovative programs, included parents with homelessness experience, grantee and non-grantee service providers, faith-based partners, educators, and government leaders.
June, 2019
Innovative Programs
All Faith Community Services is a faith-based, self-help community service organization in Buckeye, Arizona. It is a non-profit, charitable, 501 (c) (3) which receives its funding from private donations, grants and charitable contributions. It is supported by churches, businesses and individuals who want to foster positive change in the community. All Faith provides emergency assistance, such as food, clothing and that to meet basic needs. However, it also provides the impetus, training and resources to get people from poverty to productivity.
June, 2019
Innovative Programs
The mission of Workforce, Inc. is to strengthen central Indiana communities by helping local employers build a better workforce. Workforce, Inc. uses a sector-based approach to workforce development – a strategy that maximizes the attachment to the workforce desired for participants. Participants take part in training and work experience that is focused on skills for sectors that can provide lasting employment at self-sufficient wages. Workforce, Inc.
June, 2019
Policy Announcement / Memoranda
The U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance of the Office of Justice Programs issued a solicitation for grant funding to support probation and parole agencies in identifying effective practices that reduce recidivism and create comprehensive violent crime reduction strategies. Required deliverables for grant recipients are: an action plan to design and implement an evidence-based program or practice, a mid-term (at 30 months) analysis and research report, and a final (at the conclusion of the four-year grant period) analysis and research report.
June, 2019
Report
Prepared for the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, this Abt Associates literature review provides information on literature about housing models that can best serve persons with opioid use disorder who are either homeless or encounter housing instability.
June, 2019